Adobe FrameMaker 6.0 Upgrade [Old Version]

by Adobe

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00004T8QU
• Item model number: 27910345
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,002 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #53 in Software > Web Development > Internet Utilities > Electronic Publishing
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Adobe's FrameMaker 6.0 allows any author or organization to print or publish documents and books of virtually any size in a variety of electronic formats (including PDF, HTML, and XML). Whether you distribute reports, technical documents, or even full-length books, the latest upgrade to FrameMaker offers a powerful mix of features that will let you move your publishing efforts online with a minimum of effort.

Just as Adobe once pioneered paper-based desktop publishing with its PageMaker software, FrameMaker makes the same claim for electronic publishing in the Internet era. First and foremost, FrameMaker lets you lay out your page content with a capable set of tools and wizards. You can assemble small or large documents of even hundreds of pages from separate files (which can be imported from Microsoft Word or WordPerfect files as well as PDF and other formats). You can also add hyperlinks and graphics to your document easily.

In testing, we assembled an "e-book" from a literary manuscript of over 200 pages, broken into a dozen chapters. FrameMaker includes solid word-processing abilities--even a spell checker and thesaurus--plus text and graphics layout tools, so it was easy to add chapter headings and tweak text as we created the larger document. A real strength here is that as you add pages, FrameMaker updates all links (along with page numbers) between the table of contents, chapters, and index. The application includes a separate book file format and offers templates for blank chapters and other book components, so you can create and store books easily. An absolutely indispensable feature here is the ability to search and replace words across all sections of a document.

Another notable strength of this upgrade is its support for today's electronic publishing standards. Once your FrameMaker documents are assembled, you can distribute them in HTML, PDF, and XML. A separate bundled utility, Quadralay's WebWorks Publisher Standard Edition, takes you even further with support for XML with cascading stylesheets (CSS) and XSL. (These options let you view your content with more precise formatting within today's browsers.) In all, with its strong mix of layout features and support for a wide variety of electronic standards, FrameMaker will help anyone publish documents online successfully. --Rich Dragan

Amazon.com Product Description

The multichannel technical publishing solution for print and the Web, Adobe FrameMaker 6.0 software delivers a comprehensive solution for publishing long, content-rich documents across multiple channels. Whether publishing to the Web, CD-ROM, or print, FrameMaker 6.0 offers improved book-building features, including bookwide commands, and gives you the power of Quadralay WebWorks Publisher Standard Edition software for enhanced HTML and XML capabilities. This version also supports creation of structured PDF files.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Classic, December 24, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Adobe FrameMaker 6.0 Upgrade [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

This DTP software is a classic. It is mature and stable. For long documents like books or manuals it is a good choice. It may be a little too mature, though. The underlying technology is 16-bit code that does not take advantage of today's modern operating systems. The user interface looks like something coming from the 1980s. In the book publishing market there is not much of a competition, so Adobe may think they could get away with this. But they can't really. Compare Corel's Ventura Publisher 8. It is also an excellent choice for books and long structured documents. It is based on up-to-date 32-bit technology and a the printing engine from Corel Draw. The modern user interface is very similar to the recent versions of Corel Draw. So, Adobe needs to do more than they did for this Upgrade to keep Framemaker competitive, esp. they when they charge that much money for it.